William E. Rees(PhD, University of Toronto) is the founder of the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and is the author, with Mathis Wackernagel, of Our Ecological Footprint, in which he develops his famous 'ecological footprint analysis.'
The Eco-Footprints of Consumption: Tracking Social Injustice
Speaker(s): William Rees
Date: March 13, 2007
Length: 67:56
Product ID: RGDL3702G
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This lecture, given as part of the Christian Thought and Culture course, William Rees develops a scientific framework for understanding the idea of consumption in a way that it can acquire more robust ethical dimensions for our daily lives.
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